From the Williams County Public Library.
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From the Williams County Ohio Public Library - Local History Assistant, Mr. Denver Henderson, hosts another video of the library's series entitled: "Lay Me Down to Rest".
We see in this episode a short but strikingly stark view powerfully presenting its message.: Small family cemeteries can be quite remote and uniquely vulnerable. Their locations make it difficult for descendants of those buried in them to visit or arrange and conduct any cleaning or repair of grave markers. The burials are on private land where permission must be granted to enter, otherwise, a person could be prosecuted for trespassing.
The Ohio Revised Codes exclude family cemeteries from being Registered. They are placed in the same category as Inactive and Abandoned cemeteries. All such categories are designated to be Unregistered. Thus, the Ohio Cemetery Dispute Resolution Commission (with the Division of Real Estate and Professional Licensing under the Department of Commerce in Ohio) will not accept, review, or act upon any complaints about their care.
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http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/4767
Under Section 4767.:
" Sections 4767.02 to 4767.04 of the Revised Code do not apply to or affect a family cemetery or a cemetery in which there have been no interments during the previous twenty-five calendar years. As used in this division, "family cemetery" means a cemetery containing the human remains of persons, at least three-fourths of whom have a common ancestor or who are the spouse or adopted child of that common ancestor."
